NEW YORK (AP) — They’ve been on a whirlwind tour since the Olympics – from ”Late Night With David Letterman” to the Empire State Building and the New York Stock Exchange – but gold-medal gymnasts Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber have one more stop t…
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NEW YORK (AP) — With another six Olympic medals around his neck, swimmer Michael Phelps is once again touting the breakfast of champions.
General Mills Inc. on Thursday unveiled limited-edition boxes of its Wheaties cereal featuring Phelps, who now h…
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma said he has no interest in returning as head coach of the U.S. national team for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Auriemma met with reporters at UConn, five days after coaching the U.S. team to a fifth strai…
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Keshorn Walcott didn’t just return to a hero’s welcome in his Caribbean homeland of Trinidad & Tobago. He was also promised a check for about $155,000, a luxury home and roughly 20,000 square f…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Obama is teasing Olympic champion Gabby Douglas about eating fast food to celebrate her achievements.
The first lady, an advocate of healthy eating, and Douglas taped an appearance together Monday for NBC’s ”Tonight Show’…
LONDON (AP) — Shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus became the first athlete to be stripped of a medal at the London Olympics after her gold was withdrawn Monday for doping.
Valerie Adams of New Zealand was awarded the gold and Evgeniia Kolodko of…
LONDON (AP) — By the time Britain’s Anthony Joshua won a thrilling tiebreaker to claim the final gold medal in the London ring Sunday, every fighter from the most successful men’s boxing team in Olympic history had already been eliminated for five da…
LONDON (AP) — And now, on to Rio!
London brought the curtain down on a hugely entertaining Olympics with a sensational rock ‘n roll nostalgia tour of a closing ceremony that thrilled the London night with top-of-the-chart classics, supermodels and ps…
LONDON (AP) — Jake Varner of the United States won the Olympic wrestling gold in men’s 96-kilogram freestyle, beating Valerii Andriitsev of Ukraine 1-0, 1-0 Sunday.
The win gave the U.S. team multiple Olympic gold-medal winners in men’s wrestling for…
LONDON (AP) — Stephen Kiprotich rounded a corner late in the race and simply took off. A surprise surge from a surprise winner.
So swift and unexpected was his move that the runner from Uganda turned the last mile into a victory lap as he easily capt…